A team of chemists at King’s College London has synthesized an entirely new type of aluminum compound that can perform ...

President Trump once again says he's preparing to 'take over' Cuba 'almost immediately on way back from Iran' as he blasts ...

Just before 9 a.m. EDT on March 17, a meteor entered the atmosphere over Lake Erie and caused a sonic boom recorded on video ...

Yellowstone eruptions may be driven by shifts in Earth's crust, rather than a deep well of magma, study finds.

Subduction zones can look permanent on a map. They run for hundreds or thousands of miles, haul oceanic crust into the mantle ...

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For the first time, scientists have seen a subduction zone actively breaking apart beneath the Pacific Northwest. Seismic data show the oceanic plate tearing into fragments, forming microplates in a ...

A groundbreaking study in Science Advances reveals that Earth's tectonic plates are breaking apart under the Cascadia ...

At least 17 earthquakes were recorded near Area 51 in the vicinity of Nevada in the US. The tremors have prompted unfounded ...

For the first time, scientists have directly observed a subduction zone breaking apart deep beneath the ocean, offering a ...

Africa’s widening rift is thinning the crust and reshaping the land, helping preserve fossils that reveal new clues about ...

Researchers have determined that Eastern Africa will likely split from the rest of the continent along the Turkana Rift, a ...